"Probate Records. Vol. XII, 1732 to 1737. Page 341-2.
Marshall, Deacon Thomas, Windsor. Invt. £178-09-08. Taken 1st December, 1735, by Nathaniel Drake, Roger Newbery and Timothy Loomis. Will dated 5 June, 1734.
I, Thomas Marshall, of the Town of Windsor, do make and ordain this my last will and testament: My will is, that what I have obliged myself, my heirs, etc., to pay to or allow my present wife Elizabeth, by a bond bearing date 13 November, 1729, that she shall have the full and free liberty of 1 room in my dwelling house, which of them she shall choose, and the use and improvement of 8 or 10 rods of ground near my house for a garden plott, and to pasture a cow for her during her natural life, provided she survive and continue to dwell in this town, is the whole she shall have out of my estate. I give to my son Samuel Marshall, more than I have given him by deed of gift, my orchard and six acres of upland adjoining to John Graham's land. Also I give him all my right and share I have or ought to have in Torrington, in the County of Hartford, lying in common and undivided with the rest of the proprietors of sd. Torrington. And further, I give him all my right and share in the mile and 1-2-mile division of sd. Windsor Town Commons, being the lott numbered 239. And lastly, I give him 1-8 part of the whole of the grist mill (in which I have a part), except he shall allow of or give liberty for the setting up of another grist mill on the same brook on which this stands. If so, then my will is that my son Daniel shall have it, he not paying anything for it to him the sd. Samuel Marshall, his heirs and assigns forever. I give to my son Thomas Marshall, more than I have already given him, my lott in the second meadow, also my lott in the first meadow, and my five acres of upland lying by the wayside as you go to the 2nd meadow. Also, I give him my right and share in the equivalent land lying northeast of the township of Windsor. I give to my grandchildren, Ichabod and Eunice Marshall, or their guardian for their use, more than I have given to their father my son John Marshall decd., £10 money, to be paid them in equal shares by my son Daniel Marshall. I give to my son Daniel Marshall my dwelling house and homested, with the upland east of my house, and my pasture which I bought of Cornelius Gillett, reserving only, to my wife Elizabeth the use of one room in the house, which she shall choose, and about 8 or 10 rods near the house, and pasturing for a cow, for her use during her natural life if it please God that she survive me and continue to dwell in this town. Also, I give him one part of the grist mill (of which I have a part) and that broken time in it of 16 hours. And further, I give him my pasture west of the grist mill forever, he paying the sum of £10 money to my grandchildren, Ichabod and Eunice Marshall, or to their guardian; and to my grandchildren, Esther, Katharine and Ann Fowler, or their father Fowler, to be paid them in equal shares when they come of age, £10 money in the whole, to be paid by the sd. Daniel Marshall; and also to my two daughters, Mary Wilson and Eunice Marshall, £10 money each. I appoint my son Samuel Marshall executor.
THOMAS MARSHALL, LS.
Witness: Timothy Loomis, Mary X Soper, Hannah Loomis.
Court Record, Page 37—10 December, 1735: Will exhibited."